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Told To Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries
Kim Severson
New York Times
September 24, 2o1o
Told To Eat Its Vegetables, America Orders Fries
Kim Severson
New York Times
September 24, 2o1o
America hasn't been eating enough vegetables. That is the main consensus of doctors and health experts all around the country. Many Companies have tried to market vegetables to kids like candy, in hopes that this will cause them to make a change and start eating some. In fact the baby carrot industry spent a whopping $25 million on an advertising campaign. This campaign has slogans such as "Eat em' Like Junk Food" and included a large variety of adds. They even placed a few vending machines with all kinds of vegetables in schools. In hopes that this might help motivate kids to make healthier choices. In east Manhattan there was an action of "heirloom vegetables" which sold for $1000 a crate. Though unconventional the focus was again to make vegetables a more important part of life and to encourage people to eat and buy them. However, these actions don't seem to be doing much, in fact it has been around two decades since people started focusing on healthy vegetable diets. There have been stricter dietary guidelines in school, years of health education for children and much much more yet there seems to be barely any effect. All in all we have seen barely any growth in the industry, despite all the efforts to make America eat healthy there seems to be no effect.
I'm dissapointed that Americans, despite all the ads and the hard work from vegetable companies, chose junk foods over healthy foods. I just wish for a day where young kids, and adults prefer healthy foods like Organic foods or Vegetables over Junk foods.
ReplyDeleteI think if vegetables became easy to eat like junk food, more people would eat it. I know that when I'm hungry and in a rush, I would grab the bag of chips rather than carrot, since I'd have to peel the carrot.
ReplyDeleteSomething else that is important is that the adults understand the importance of vegetables as well. Usually, adults decide what the kids eat. Then the kids grow up learning to eat the way their parents ate.
I find it funny that Americans are doing everything they possibly can to stop the obesity of our people, including this wacky slogan, "Eat em like junk food" It is sad enough that americans are so unhealthy, but to advertise carrots and say to the people, "Eat em like junk food"? What is that going to accomplish? Junk food is made for a reason, and one of those reasons is not healthiness. Vegetables are healthy and are supposed to be eaten by everybody everyday. By advertising them like they can be eaten like junk food proves nothing.
ReplyDeletei think Americans and most people on Earth dont like vegetables because generally they dont taste all that good.
ReplyDeletei think that it is up to the parents to start introducing their kids to healthier eating plans and for kids to make smarter choices as well.
ReplyDeletebut its mostly on the parents to do something about it. lots of them dont and so children end up fat and with health problems later.
another thing that would help would allow stores to raise prices on junk food and lower prices on healthy food because a lot of reasons that people dont eat healthy is because of financial reasons.